If there isn't a mutually satisfactory agreement, the path ahead for YouTube is unending lawsuits, while the studios seem to be preparing to launch their own video portal, which would be a disaster, too. A video portal of and by the studios will be about
Sony Corp.'s entertainment unit said it had agreed to pay $65 million to buy Web video-watching site Grouper.com, marking the growing embrace of the user-generated video craze by big media.
Sonys UMD Format wird in Zukunft nicht mehr so breit unterstützt werden. Die Verkäufe der Discs gehen zurück die Studios beschweren sich dass zu schnell zuviele Filme rauskamen und der Effekt des neuen ist weg. Konkurrenz durch iPod und iTMS.